Child&#39;s portable cot for attachment to beds.



' A. E. BROWN. CHILDS PORTAB LECQT FOR ATTACHMENTTO BEDS. APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. I912- Y Patented June 13, 1916.

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Application filed April 8,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED EDMUND BROWN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at No. 3 Esplanade, Fremantle in Western Australia, Commonwealth 'of Australia have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Childrens Portable Cots for Attachment to Beds, of which the following is a specification.

The object 'of this invention is to con struct a childs cot which may be wheeled about by day and then at night to be capable and adapted of being intimately connected to the bed so that the child is within easy reach of the parent or nurse during the night-time. By such construction the cot becomes an actual extension of the bed for all practical and needful purposes of care and attention to the child.

In order that my invention as to its construction and use may be clearly understood reference will now be made to the accompanying drawing of which- Figure 1 is an end view of the cot and showing it as attached to a bed while in Fig. 2 is shown a perspective view of the invention as apart from the bed, and exposing the under carriage on which the cot is built.

Referring to said drawing a is the cot, as in broken lines, made of wicker work or any suitable material or of any design or shape and having the down flap door a. The cot is mounted or built on a carriage frame I) and provided with easy running wheels (4 preferably rubber tired, while spiral springs (Z are interposed between the cot and frame so as to absorb shock and vibration. This frame 6 has its end members formed at one side thereof with the jawed downward brackets 6 whose purpose is to straddle and grip and clamp the bed frame or mattress beam 7 as the case may be. Adjusting thumb screws 9 secure the cot to the bed 7 as seen in Fig. 1 by tightening up the inner jaws e thereto.

Extension pieces j pair of bracket legs outer jaws'thereof carry the wheels 0 while the opposite companion wheels 0 are carried on their own bracket legs at as formed on the bedside e constituting the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

1912. Serial No. 689,358.

shown, the legs on being located at the other side of the said end members of the frame.

The cot is further provided with an outside leg or prop n for use at night as seen in Fig. 1 so as the better to rigidly hold the cot firmly against the bed. This leg is hingeably secured to the cot as at p and said leg is hingeably divided as at 7' with the FFIGE,

knuckle joint so that said leg may easily fold up during the daytime or said leg may be made telescopic so as to be adjustably extensible or reducible in length and for which latter purpose the legs 6 and m may have their pivots or bolts 6 and m slidably, adjustable in the elongated, longitudinal slots 03 formed in each of the upper leg extensions 6 and m.

It will be noted that my cot fulfils dual functions and uses both as a day cot as seen in Fig. 2 and as an attachment cot in combination with the bed of the nurse or parent during the night-time as seen in Fig. 1.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1- The herein-described device comprising, a frame for supporting a cot and detachably connecting the same in elevated position to a bed-rail consisting, in combination, of a pair of transversely arranged end members and a longitudinal member rigidly and centrally connecting the same, depending arms rigidly connected to the end portions of each of said transverse members and formed with elongated longitudinal slots therein, a pair of substantially U-shaped members bed-rail, a vertical extension projecting from each of the U-shaped members, means said extensions to one of said arms on the inner side of the frame and slidably adjustable in the slot thereof, a clamp carried by one leg of each of said U-shaped members for engaging with said bed-rail, a wheel journaled in the other leg of said U-shaped member, a depending leg for each arm on the outer side of the frame and equal in length to said U-shaped members and their extensions,

means pivotally and adjustably connecting said last-mentioned legs to said adapted to straddle the arms and slidably adjustable in the slots of my hand in presence of tWo subscribing Witthe latter, and a Wheel journaled in the exnesses.

tremit of each of said last-mentioned legs, all of said Wheels cooperating to support ALFRED EDMUND BROWN 5 the frame and cot When the frame is de- Witnesses: tached to the bed-rail. J. D. DWYER, v In testimony whereof I have hereunto set F. W. MARTIN.

Gopieu o! thil patent may be obtained for nve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0." r r 

